Now that looks like a Grimaldi second-cousin! Elizabeth Ann (what is it with E-A in this group? Ernst, Eric...) appears very much like Stephanie with softened features. She doesn't have Steph's chiseled cheeks.

It does say that Nastase came with his daughter Alyssia. But later it says that he assisted the Nadal-Gaudio match in the companie of a blonde friend and JF Cope. So I still think she is the "amie blonde".

She does not look as Al' GF at all, may be just as a family friend or relative....there is nothing common with love in the air, it's too evident and seen by the naked eye and so I think that she is out of the wife thread.
May be you you should create the new thread "Al' and the blonds in his everyday' surrounding", though I don't see any sense in it :p

Perhaps she, or any other "amie blonde", should take a page out of Ms. Wittstock's play book and make your move so that everyone will know what your relationship is with Albert. Just look for the camera and then hang all over him. Then when they ask you about the tennis match just say it's a great place for lovers.

It seems theat there is a certain threshold of attractiveness for any woman that Albert is with before before will start specualting that perhaps the woman is more than a friend. If she was ugly (or very plain), no one would have given her a second thought. Perhaps she is just a friend. She looks like a countess or something I've seen in one of the picture threads at one of the functions.

That's interesting. What does she do, though? Does she only have to work when HRH and HSH are working/staying at the Palace? I would have thought the last Ladies in Waiting would have left or retired when HSH the Princess Grace died.

I once wrote to Palais de Monaco and it was Mme Gallico who replied to the letter, I think her role is pretty much a private secretary/ personal assistant to the Serene Family

Well, not quite,because they all have their private secretaries as well. They (dame d'honneur and chambelain) can also represent them, when none of the family can attend or when the event is not considered so important, but important enough to have a palace rep there. The secretaries you don't see. I will ask a friend of mine, who used to work as Rainiers secretary in the palace, at an appropriate moment what her function are.

Were Albert, Louis and Daniel Ducruet at the same football match? Was this in Monaco? Ducruet is now allowed in Monaco?:(

Unless the same team played twice, it appears to me that they were all at the same game or at least in the same stadium on the same day.

I don't think Daniel was ever banned from Monaco. He would visit his younger kids (and bring Michael) in Fontville at Stephanie's house (when she had one there). They would also all go to the beach club together.

Were he banned, it might have been for a short time after the separation and divorce while Stephanie was still hurting. Rainier did not like to see Stephanie in pain. But clearly it not in effect by 2000.